1. Bullpen. I thought it would be a huge asset this year, but losing Motte might have really hurt us by shuffling roles. It just seems like every game that they come in, they're going to allow at least a run or two. I know it'll level out at some point (maybe not to being good, but to not being atrocious), but I have almost no confidence in the pen right now.

2. Kind of like last year, our hitting seems to be very streaky (for lack of better word). We seem to either score 1-2 or 8-10. That's not strictly true obviously, but we seem to struggle to find a happy medium. Last year somebody I know calculated it (and I'm going to butcher this somewhat), but our scoring had something like 3 standard deviations from the mean where the league average was like 1.3 or something. It seems like that trend is continuing and I can't explain why.

And the worst par is that Matheny said that was his #1 focus in the offseason.

The first thing he should do about that is stop batting Carp 7th, even on occasion. He should hit 2nd every single time he is in the lineup without exception. He gets on base better than anybody on the team by a really wide margin, so he needs to hit in front of our big bats, not behind them.

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